I don't have to work in an office anymore...much less a cubicle. Even if I get busy in the winter, I still get to see sunlight.
How has the internet changed you in the past 4 years?
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Multiplayer video-games no longer (for the most part) have persitent worlds that players can host, so I play less games socially. Actually, I play less games in general now.FilipJPhry said:
I watch a lot more media and read less now that I have the sort of internet allowance that allows for such things. I also write less, which is a shame.
Oh, and exposing myself to so much more, everything has made me realise ignorance is bliss. I get less enjoyment out of everything and my standards for art have sky-rocketed. I've been spoilt.
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That won't work. I adeutch bad puns.[sub][sub] See, it's a pun on 'adore'...[/sub][/sub]
Actually, I'm absolutely certain I will pass the exam.
Will probably get a pretty good result as well.
When it comes to physics though, I strive for excellence, and I just can't find the motivation to bump my grade up a notch.
I can touch type.
I'm slightly less of a whiny *****.
I used to cry a lot when younger. I now cry so little that new friends I make take my unexpressful default face as some kind of sign that I lack emotion.
I have probably commited some close-to cyber bullying levels of evil, sometimes even justified by an attempt to teach newcomers to public chats that the internet is full of evil people, and if you can't deal with low level insults, you will go mad, because any idiot feels as if they've reached new levels of trollage by combining random obscenities with "fuck".
I somehow have more friends. Mostly interent friends whom I plan to meet at leats some of in my life.
I have become a better anime nerd.
I've also discovered that I can still feel alone in places full of people with common interest and passions.
I rarely watch TV.
I know so much about games that are coming out that I've got tons of games that I haven't completed.
I'm slightly less of a whiny *****.
I used to cry a lot when younger. I now cry so little that new friends I make take my unexpressful default face as some kind of sign that I lack emotion.
I have probably commited some close-to cyber bullying levels of evil, sometimes even justified by an attempt to teach newcomers to public chats that the internet is full of evil people, and if you can't deal with low level insults, you will go mad, because any idiot feels as if they've reached new levels of trollage by combining random obscenities with "fuck".
I somehow have more friends. Mostly interent friends whom I plan to meet at leats some of in my life.
I have become a better anime nerd.
I've also discovered that I can still feel alone in places full of people with common interest and passions.
I rarely watch TV.
I know so much about games that are coming out that I've got tons of games that I haven't completed.
I know the feeling.Dango said:
I've expanded my horizons in terms of music, and become all round more knowledgeable. The downside (I suppose) is if I ever chose to use my sociopathy for criminal purposes, I have the means to start some serious shit.
A lot of the stuff I've learned has helped me figure out what I want to do with my life (not criminal stuff!)
I've been on the internet since 1995, not much has changed at all in the last four years of note for me. I don't even think the internet was all that different for me ten years ago v:
I guess if anything, it's just that I'm less naive about the terrible attitudes and opinions some people have and hold really strongly. Like, I've heard more sexist shit coming from guys my age and younger in the past five years online than I have my whole life. I didn't even know that was a thing until I started going around more video game-centric communities 0:
I guess if anything, it's just that I'm less naive about the terrible attitudes and opinions some people have and hold really strongly. Like, I've heard more sexist shit coming from guys my age and younger in the past five years online than I have my whole life. I didn't even know that was a thing until I started going around more video game-centric communities 0:
I managed to get into an online relationship, fall in love, lose my virginity, and get dumped over the course of the last six months. Something probably changed in me from that.
-I've become a more positive person. In my lesser years of the cursed establishment of middle school, I had some depression. But, with further delving into the internet, I found things that were freaking hilarious and amazing beyond what little I could find in my area of upper class suburbanites and pot-heads.
-I've also learned so much. Gods bless wikipedia for the knowledge bestowed upon me, something I hope to never lose.
-I feel more classy, and strive to become a better person, holding morals to become a gentleman, for whom else shall wear the top hat when they near extinction?
-Meeting lots of different people with their different views and experiences on multiple events/things
-Disliked many whole parts of society (More than I already did), whilst becoming more tolerant and able to laugh at them.
captcha: "Sing a song" --Why yes, and who can forget the music I've found?
-I've also learned so much. Gods bless wikipedia for the knowledge bestowed upon me, something I hope to never lose.
-I feel more classy, and strive to become a better person, holding morals to become a gentleman, for whom else shall wear the top hat when they near extinction?
-Meeting lots of different people with their different views and experiences on multiple events/things
-Disliked many whole parts of society (More than I already did), whilst becoming more tolerant and able to laugh at them.
captcha: "Sing a song" --Why yes, and who can forget the music I've found?
Well, my one big motivation in life is entertainment (for some people it's helping people, or charity, or learning or teaching or whatever) so the internet has given me a wonderful outlet for that.
Come to think of it, the internet let me discover that motivation in the first place. A few years ago I was a whiny, worthless shit with no direction in my life. And I saw results in just under two weeks. Call your doctor today.
Come to think of it, the internet let me discover that motivation in the first place. A few years ago I was a whiny, worthless shit with no direction in my life. And I saw results in just under two weeks. Call your doctor today.
I like to think I'm less naive but that statement is probably naive in itself.
Other than that, Trivia. I get every random fact i have now from either Cracked or here I guess.
I also now have a taste in music that is now completely different than any one of my friends.
I don't care about violence anymore
I like to think that I now understand American politics.
I also read webcomics.
What have I become?
Other than that, Trivia. I get every random fact i have now from either Cracked or here I guess.
I also now have a taste in music that is now completely different than any one of my friends.
I don't care about violence anymore
I like to think that I now understand American politics.
I also read webcomics.
What have I become?
I'd like to think I'm less prejudiced, due to more exposure to different people, and explanations of how prejudice works in our culture.
Most importantly I educated myself in science. It's shocking how much Wikipedia does for you.
I started watching GOOD anime.
I started watching GOOD anime.
Physics exam, I just had mine this morning. I have Chemistry tomorrow then frrreedom to browse the internet without feeling guilty.Jonluw said:
I was 11 four years ago, pretty much an empty shell of a person compared to who i am now. The internet has exposed me to countless opinions, people and ideas, without it i'd be nothing.
Sometimes they extend it to looking down on other people who play games on the PC too, because they haven't shelled out the money to get the best and newest hardware, or even because they didn't want to research every little thing about graphics cards, processors, sound drives, hard drives, motherboards, and RAM to build their own computer and just bought a pre-built one because "lol d00d, you're gonna pay $2000 for the brand name when you could just build it yourself for $600 looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool". Eugh.Jmz01 said:
Anyway.
Don't think it's really changed me in the last four years. Six, seven, or eight years maybe. Well, I do spend a fair amount of time on this website, which has only been happening for about a year and a half.
But general lessons I've learned over the years:
- Anonymity + a group of people + a way for them to voice their opinions = A bunch of douchebags.
- It's very hard to read sarcasm/satire.
- YouTube commenters violently take advantage of point #1.
- A lot of people have issues with their ego. As in, it's too large. As in, they think that if they don't like something, there's absolutely no way that anybody else on the entire planet could possibly like it.
- A lot of people will ***** and rage at things without having first-hand experience with the things they're bitching about, and will angrily avoid actually getting first-hand experience under the claims that they know it sucks because they've looked up a bunch of stuff about it.
- ... I could probably think of something else if I really wanted to bother with it, but those are the basics.